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Letter "A" » Arthur Helps Quotes
«Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.»
Author: Arthur Helps
(Historian, Novelist)
| Keywords:
accomplished, achieve, costs, decided, distaste, gain, immense, labor, self confidence, task, tedium, tiresome
«Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.»
Author: Arthur Helps
(Historian, Novelist)
| About:
Strength
| Keywords:
Amid, long-suffering, The Deep
«Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought»
«Choose an author as you choose a friend.»
«Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.»
«The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.»
Author: Arthur Helps
(Historian, Novelist)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
actor, athlete, emotional, Personal life, suffers, The Process
«In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.»
«Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?»
«There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.»
Author: Arthur Helps
(Historian, Novelist)
| About:
Beauty,
Cosmetics
| Keywords:
calmness, cosmetic, cosmetics, countenance, good temper, gracious, modesty, purity, severe, signatures, temperance, the Graces, without modesty
«It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss -- a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.»
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